Workshop | Military Pentathlon Jørstadmoen 2025
September 23, 2025
what - how - why?
Brief recap from the lecture
Your working demand.
Longer assignment..
Intro til leksjonene - min kadettene på at leksjonene vil lede til workshop hvor man vil jobbe med refleksjoner/diskusjoner
Start strong, end stronger
End stronger: agenda - point at what we have learned, create highlight –> ask people what they have learned to get an summary
How did you feel to day: look at the progression, make people see the progression
REDUCE the fade out of workshops.
Be confident - only one way of doing this workshop
Parking lot - save issues so they feel heard and makes them more relaxed during the work session
What are your working demands in your position?
How will you achieve these working demands?
Why is this of importance?
(Figure inspired from: Billing and Drain 2017; Drain and Reilly 2019)
Figure created with data from Ojanen 2022
Doctoral Thesis
Occupational task requirements
Requirements are many for the modern soldier
If you had to lead a mission tomorrow, what physical skills would you most rely on?
Occupational task requirements, can you mention some occupational tasks you will frequently experience in your field
What is your working demand in your field of expertise?
Discussion groups of three persons;
Why fitness is more that just passing physical training tests?
Elaborate of the idea of “functional” fitness vs. “test” fitness”
Evaluation of the effects of physical training programmes on occupational task performance, should measure relative strain, such as percentage of maximal capacity, of the participants while performing the task in addition to the performance outcome. These data provide more insight into an individuals ability to cope with occupational demands.
Strength; Muscle activation - which is feasible? Put on some more measurement equipment, EMG devices?
Max muscle neural activation (isometric) - dynamic movement muscle activation.
Strength capacity
Endurance capacity
Discussion;
“How does your (the cadet) daily physical training reflect these demands?”
If not in particular: How can you implement some of these working demand in your training day?
Group task:
Cadets individual task:
Group task:
Recap key ideas:
Training with purpose
Linking PT to leadership and mission-readiness
Share a 1-page “Cadet Combat Conditioning Plan Template”
Optional: Introduce a Squad Challenge to try pentathlon-style drills weekly
work demand - dig, crawl ect. and do we have valid tests which is associated with this working demand?
Capacity analysis (are you on point?)
General demand
Challenges of performing systematic training over time in a military context?
Mission-Ready